FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1954
Rhee May Give
Aid to French
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (IP)— Diplomatic sources said today that
Syngman Rhee, fiery President of South Korea, has offered to send
one and possibly two ROK divisions to Indochina to help the French
fight Communist-led rebels.
Gen. John Hull, supreme commander of U.S. and UN forces
President Asks
State Heads
To Visit Korea
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 ( JP)—
President Eisenhower, in - move
believed unprecedented, has asked
a group of state governors to go
to Korea and appraise th' situa
tion there for the benefit of the
American people.
Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado,
chairman of the Governors’ Con
ference, announced in Denver that
he will lead a delegation to Korea
about April 1.
Eisenhower’s invitation was in
terpreted here as another move
in his program to bring state exe
cutives into closer relationship to
major national problems. The
White House already is cooperat
irig in plans for a three-day meet
ing of the 48 governors here late
in April to discuss national se
curity and other problems.
White House . Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said that so far
as he knew this is the first tirfie
the federal government has ini
tiated an inspection trip abroad
by a representative group of gov
ernors.
Thornton told reporters that so
far four governors have agreed to
make the trip with him. He listed
them as Govs. Allan Shivers of
Texas, John Fine f Pennsylvania,
Johnston Murray of Oklahoma and
Robert Kennon of Louisiana,
Federals Drop
Erickson Case
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (JP)—' The
government said today it had no
hope of convicting gambler Frank
Erickson for his refusal to answer
Senate Crime Committee ques
tions in 1951.
As a result, Federal Judge John
F. X. McGohey threw out of court
a contempt of Congress charge
against the pudgy, one-time king
pin of a 20 million dollars a year
gambling ring.
U. S. Attorney J. Edward Lium
bard said his case against court
decisions involving the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution.
- Erickson currently is serving
six months in prison as an income
tax evader at Milan, Mich. Dis
missal of the contempt charge
freed him from a further possible
sentence on conviction of up to
10- years.
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in the Far East, promptly denied
that Rhee had offered two divi
sions, but he declined comment
on whether one division had been
offered. Hull is here for consul
tations.
There was no official confirma
tion of the Rhee report. Informed
quarters in both Washington and
the Korean capital of Seoul were
inclined to discount any possibility
of South Korean forces joining
the battle against the Red Viet
namese in Indochina.
Surrounded by reporters at the
White House, where he reported
to President Eisenhower on the
Korean situation, Hull did not re
ply directly to a question whether
he would approve of sending ROK
units to the aid of the .French.
He merely said the United
States has supported South Ko
rean troops militarily. The ROK
army has been equipped by this
country and trained by American
officers.
Upon his arrival here today af
ter a flight from Tokyo, Hull told
newsmen Rhee was “a great pa
triot” who will continue to “col
laborate with the United States
all the way through.”
The diplomatic sources which
reported Rhee’s offer of help to
the French did not explain how he
could afford to make it in view
of his statement to an Associated
Press correspondent in Seoul yes
terday that he is determined to
reopen the war against the Chi
nese Reds in North Korea, with or
without American support.
Grand Jury Indicts
CIO Transport Head
NEW YORK (JP) —A Brook
lyn grand jury today indicted
Michael Quill, head of the CIO
Transport Workers, on a charge
of criminal libel.
The indictment was an out
growth of a bitter attack by
Quill on Transit Authority
member Harris J. Klein while
Quill’s union, was seeking a
50 million dollar package in
crease from the Transit Au
thority.
Quill issued a statement say
ing Klein had offered to back'
th eunion’s demands for wages
and other benefits if the CIO
supported Klein for a judge
ship appointment.
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Poet Slayer
Justifies Self
In Outburst
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (JP) —The
confessed slayer of poet Maxwell
Bodenheim and his wife—in a dis
play of “madness” which did not
entirely convince police—cried out
today that he deserved a medal
for killing “two Communists.”
“I did the country a favor,”
shouted 25-year-old Harold Wein
berg. a former mental patient. “I
killed two Communists. I ought to
get a medal from Washington,
D.C.”
Smiling at times and again
atremble, Weinberg interrupted a
court appearance to break into
“The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Then he demanded of Felony Mag
istrate Louis A. Palnucco:
“Are you a Communist?”
Pagnucco ignored the question,
and sent the ragged Greenwich
Village dishwasher off to Belle
vue Hospital for a mental exami
nation.
Police voiced suspicion that
Weinberg is feigning madness to
escape the electric chair for the
savage twin killings of last Sat
urday night.
Wolcott to Present
Mew Housing Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 ( IP)—
Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R-Mich.) said
today the administration’s hous
ing bill which he will introduce
in the House will not specifically
provide for a new public housing
program.
Instead, Wolcott said, legisla
tive authority for public housing
contained in the Housing Act of
1949 is “enough authorization to
effectuate” Eisenhower’s request
for 35,000 public housing units in
each of the next four years.
The FI use Appropriations Com
mittee last year attached a rider
on an appropriations bill limiting
new units this year to 20,000.
Wolcott is regarded as critical,
in general, of the idea of public
housing. It was understood the
White House had previously ex
pected him to spell out in his
housing bill details of Eisenhow
er’s proposals on this controver
sial question.
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Ike Fails to Allay
Friction in Senate
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (£>)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower
failed to make much headway today with selling Senate Republicans
his advice that the GOP soften its political punches against Demo
crats whose votes are needed to help his program along in Congress.
One of the President’s closest political allies, Sen. Frank Carlson
(R-Kan) took the Senate floor to
say he didn’t think the Democrats
“should be crying foul” because
of a political pasting from the
Republicans.
In the light of outcries from
Democrats that Republicans are
trying to label all of them left
wingers and political sadists
stained with the red of commu
nism, Eisenhower spoke out
yesterday against extreme par
tisanship in these times. He said
he would advise his executive
family against indulging in it
and that this went for the Re
publican National Committee
chairman, Leonard W. Hall.
Yet, under the National Com
mittee’s auspices, Sen. Joseph Mc-
Carthy (R-Wis) is still on a speak
ing foray in which the theme has
been “20 years of treason” under
the last two Democratic adminis
trations.
George Attacks
Bricker Plan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 ffl—
Sen. George (D-Ga) told the Sen
ate today that he doesn’t want
“any president to make an agree
ment with Turkey that will pre
clude me from killing a cat in my
back alley at night.”
And, he shouted: “Neither do I
want him to negotiate an agree
ment with India that will preclude
me from butchering a cow in my
own barnyard.”
George spoke in defense of his
move to revise the controversial
Bricker amendment. His substi
tute plan has two parts: one would
declare invalid any portion of a
treaty or executive agreement in
conflict with the Constitution; the
other would require approval of
Congress before executive agree
ments could become effective as
internal law.
Pope Sends Message
To Italian People
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 11 (#>)—
Pope Pius XII, reported on the
road to recovery after three weeks
of dangerous illness, marked his
improvement today by sending a
message of blessing to the Italian
people.
The message marked the 25th
anniversary of the signing of the
Lateran Pacts by Italy and the
Vatican which established the
sovereignty of Vatican City. It
was the first direct word from
the Pope to issue from the Vatican
since he took to his bed Jan. 25
with a stubborn gastric ailment.
Red Strikes Hat Italy
ROME, Feb. 11 (IP) —Commu-
nist-led strikes paralyzed Italy’s
industrial north today, under
scoring the number one problem
facing the day-old regime of Pre
mier Mario Scelba. They were due
to hit Rome next Tuesday..
Sen. William Jenner (R-Ind),
also under National Committee
sponsorship, is stumping his home
state saying he intends to “tell
the truth regardless of politics.”
Carlson, who was by Eisenhow
er’s side through the 1952 presi
dential campaign, said he was in
accord with the chief executive’s
policy of “sponsoring a movement
to be kind to Democrats.” He told
the Senate he has many fine
Democratic friends he would not
want to see “unduly criticized or
castigated.”
But he said he considered it a
matter of record that previous
administrations'made "an effort
to shield Communists" and that
he hoped the GOP wouldn't be
criticized for pointing it out.
Russian Skiers Slight
'Moscow 1 Movie
FALUN, Sweden, Feb. 11 (IP)—
Russian skiers here for the worlds
championships went to a movie
last night.
They selected a French movie.
They did not choose to see “Es
< ape from Moscow,” starring Clark
Gable and Gene Tierney,
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